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New York’s Waterways Were Its Real Highways | New York City News
Back in 1776, New York City was a gritty, water-dependent frontier—tiny, dirt-strewn, and utterly reliant on ferries and sailboats to connect its shores. Forget paved streets: Broadway was unpaved, and most travel meant rowboats to Queens or Brooklyn—or horseback for the wealthy, who still faced a bumpy ride. Even street names like Pearl Street trace back to Native American roots, while royal names like King Street were scrubbed clean after the Revolution. The real arteries of the city? The waterways—ferries and sailboats that carried people and goods, shaping colonial New York into what it…
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